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Protection (3)

Tokens (2)

Ah, the old phrase: 'Til death do we part. I'm afraid this clause no longer applies, it seems that last time we came around with a notice of Blood Tax Payments are Due you did not pay. I'm afraid that means
Teysa Karlov
will have to alter your contract. Instead of simply paying money or selling the souls of your ancestors, you must now serve the Orzhov in the Afterlife. Unless the
Tithe Taker
is payed, I'm afraid that this will be the fate of many more souls. If you are indebted to the Orzhov you may also make payments at the
Godless Shrine
to
Elenda, the Dusk Rose
or the
Hallowed Spiritkeeper
. I would not suggest trying to bargain or avoid your debts, all who have done so have met a gruesome end at the hand of a
Pitiless Pontiff
. If the Syndicate is not paid in a timely manner I'm afraid that
Teysa Karlov
will have to issue a
Merciless Eviction
and you will spend the rest of your days at the
Debtors' Knell
. That being said, I would suggest you lay in full unless you want to spend the Afterlife in service of the Orzhov Syndicate.

Basically this deck tries to take advantage of die/Exit the Battlefield triggers, especially the ones centered around creatures. Cards such as
Hangarback Walker
,
Elenda, the Dusk Rose
, and the new afterlife mechanic are good examples of this. We also just want to generate value through creatures dying with cards like
Blood Artist
and
Dictate of Erebos
. To take advantage of all these triggers we try to have sac outlets in place to get rid of our creatures at will. Ways to bring those creatures back are also important, it allows us to get more value by just doing it all over again. Once the tokens are out we want to abuse the lifelink and vigilance given by
Teysa Karlov
to gain tons of life, then take advantage of creatures dying by chump blocking where needed.

We have some good options when it comes to creating our tokens in this deck.

Anointed Procession
: Token doubling? Yes please! This also goes nicely with
Teysa Karlov
. If a creature dying creates tokens you double the first trigger of tokens, then it doubles again! This means that you can get about 4x more tokens than you would otherwise.

Great, now we have a problem. In our quest for value we sacrificed our creatures that gave us value, we need them back. Without recursion this deck can run dry, which would be very bad. Besides, who wouldn't want to get tons of tokens off of
Elenda, the Dusk Rose
, twice!

Wait, I didn't want everything gone!: Well, good thing
Faith's Reward
is here to return everything that we lost.

Liliana, Heretical Healer
Flip: Once this flips and we are able to get her Emblem out this will be powerful recursion. This will give us the power to sac things multiple times, allowing us to get tons of value.

Mass Exile: When our creatures get exiled they don't trigger our effects, and since they are exiled we can't get them back! While yes, we can try and sacrifice our creatures so that we can get them back later, this may not always be possible. Times that we will be vulnerable will be: If they take out the outlet before hand, or we are tapped out and the outlets cost mana to use (which shouldn't happen too often if you err on the side of caution).

Combo: We can't stop a combo by countering spells, instead we have to hope that is is creature based so that we can kill it.

Child of Alara
decks: Facing these decks is really frustrating with this deck is frustrating. We aren't able to build any sort of board state, especially since
Child of Alara
come out and dies about every other turn. If you see this it's time to make allies and pray that you can somehow deal with it.

Cards I am thinking about. I basically just have cards that I think would be good in the deck, but want to test the deck to see what doesn't work before I put them in for.

For people who see the deck an want to build it. That's right, I build the maybeboard for you guys as well! Basically you can play the deck as it is, and make adjustments according to your meta. The maybeboard can help because it has tools that I feel could be put in to help the deck according to your personal meta. The deck as it stands is well rounded, but if you need to protect against a certain type of deck then hopefully the maybeboard can help you with that

I hope you like the deck! Comments, suggestions, and upvotes are encouraged.

Lifegain (4)

1x Ashes&emsp13;of&emsp13;the&emsp13;Abhorrent

1x Blood&emsp13;Artist

1x Kokusho,&emsp13;the&emsp13;Evening&emsp13;Star

1x Zulaport&emsp13;Cutthroat

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